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Organizing occupancy text on the drawing

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Organizing occupancy text on the drawing

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- [Voiceover] In the previous video, in our 00_GND_FM_ANNOTATE drawing, we set up the Occupancy People attribute here in the white text. What we're going to do now is we're going to explode this block here. We're going to create a new block. What we're going to do is we're going to create this new block so that it incorporates this attribute. First thing we need to do, go to the Home tab on the ribbon. Go to the Layers panel and make sure, here, that we've got our FM-OCCPERSON layer as the current layer. You'll see why in a moment. I'm just going to select that there like that. I'm then going to click on the block like this, and I'm going to explode it in the Modify panel. There's the Explode there. That's on the Home tab on the ribbon. It's all exploded and it's all on layer zero. What I need to do now is I need to create a new block incorporating the symbol and the attribute this time. I go to the Insert tab on the ribbon like so, and I Create Block like so. Now the block I've…

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